Electric Golf Carts Are All The Rage
CleanTechnica EVs
JULY 11, 2021
Lithium-ion batteries are becoming a popular option for electric golf carts.
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CleanTechnica EVs
JULY 11, 2021
Lithium-ion batteries are becoming a popular option for electric golf carts.
Electrek
JANUARY 22, 2022
Having spent a year now writing this Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column , I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy discovering all sorts of unique Chinese design themes. And this week’s bizarre little electric golf cart is a great example of just how awesome that design can be.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 14, 2012
Public preconceptions of electric cars as wimpy fiberglass golf carts are starting to wane, ever so slowly. Now, another plug-in electric vehicle is literally looking to crush those outdated images. Shown above is the world's first all-electric monster truck, formally known as the Odyssey Battery Bigfoot No.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2020
We’ll be producing a plug-and-play motor that can be manufactured at lower volumes without extensive commitment, and people will easily be able to use it for e-scooters, golf carts, e-bikes, autonomous robots or any other last-mile application. Pricing will be confirmed based on customer specific order quantities and features.
Electrek
JANUARY 12, 2022
Mitsubishi was one of the early pioneers of the modern EV era, launching the original iMiEV electric kei car on World Environment Day back in 2009. Against all odds, the iMiEV is still in production and, today, a fixture in EV markets across Europe and South East Asia – but this, too, must end.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
The target market for the OorjaPac is the materials handling industry, for use in electric forklifts, pallet trucks, and automated guided vehicles. The Hybrid Electric Vehicles developed in the program will serve as future test platforms for SymPowerco’s FEDMFC and for retrofit Hybrid Power Systems of varying designs. With a 4.5
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2012
The rules explicitly exclude devices used to charge a motor vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2023
GEM has been producing low-speed electric vehicles for more than 25 years and has sold more than 65,000 of them. LSVs are more than a golf cart—they are street legal on most roads posted 35 mph or less. The 2024 line-up is based on a new electrical architecture. —Keith Simon, CEO, Waev Inc.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
The Swiss battery system manufacturer ecovolta has developed a standardized Li-ion traction battery which can significantly reduce the time and expense needed to bring electric vehicles to the serial production stage. Users of the evoTractionBattery receive fully documented certification for all battery packs, including the crucial UN 38.3
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg announces the addition of 70 new electric vehicles. New York City is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. Chevy Volt and Navistar E-star are visible in the background.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
ZMC) has decided to switch its business strategy from selling electric vehicles to distributing an electric drivetrain powered by EEStor, once the EEstor EESU units are available. ZENN Motor Company Inc. Earlier post.). Integration of the ZENNergy drive in OEM vehicles has always been our long term objective.At
Green Car Congress
JULY 19, 2010
Balqon Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of heavy-duty electric vehicles for Class 7 and Class 8 applications ( earlier post ), has entered into a Dealer Agreement with Mol Transport Solutions, a leading manufacturer of port and material handling equipment in Europe. Balwinder Samra, president and CEO of Balqon Corporation.
Baua Electric
JUNE 14, 2024
Golf carts are no longer just for cruising the country club. Thanks to US golf cart maker E-Z-GO , which partnered with National Calendar Day to help establish National Golf Cart Day in celebration of the brand’s 70th anniversary, we can now all celebrate these pint-sized car replacements with their own holiday.
Baua Electric
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Who needs a golf cart when you’ve got a… golf bike? That’s the thought behind Fairway Bikes’ new three-wheeled electric bike designed for golfers, helping kick the lazy golf cart for a more interactive alternative. After retiring, Jim was playing more golf but found it challenging to walk the course.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 11, 2017
We're long past the days when car enthusiast publications sneered at electric cars as underpowered golf carts. Much of the credit for that goes to Tesla, the first all-electric carmaker, whose Model S won the hearts of 'buff-book' writers everywhere for its speed and shape.
Baua Electric
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
This week on Electrek ’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. The post Wheel-E Podcast: Golf cart bikes, cops on e-bikes & more appeared first on Bauaelectric EV News. ET (or the video after 10:00 a.m.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Golf carts aren’t just for golfers anymore. In fact, they’re getting much more use away from the golfing green as an alternative to cars in neighborhoods all over the US. Now Kandi America’s new collapsible mini golf cart is trying to reframe the concept of low-impact urban transportation.
Open Source Civic EV Kit
APRIL 7, 2008
After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.
Baua Electric
MARCH 7, 2024
This week on Electrek ’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. The post Wheel-E Podcast: New e-bikes from Rad, Aventon, Frey, tiny golf cart, & more appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 4, 2025
I think youd wind up with something like the wacky-looking electric cart that has earned the dubious honor of being named this weeks Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week ! The post Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: A $7,000 armored golf cart? appeared first on Bauaelectric EV News.
DIY Electric Car
NOVEMBER 16, 2013
I am leaning towards a golf cart or forklift motor. The quadrunner has been stripped of everything ICE, and I have retained what electrical will be needed for lights etc. All the Golf cart motors I have been finding on the net are either 10 or 19 spline. Golf cart motor ? 36/48 volt.
All Cars Electric
AUGUST 4, 2011
If you’re a regular at All Cars Electric You’ll know that we have a sister site, Green Car Reports. In the past few years we’ve seen electric cars move from vaporware or golf carts into real, working, production cars.
Teslarati
AUGUST 27, 2024
More and more police departments seem to be discovering the advantages offered by electric vehicles like the Tesla Model Y. This was highlighted in recent comments from La Crescent Police Chief Luke Ahlschlager, who noted that the all-electric squad car has so far been good for the city. “It moves fast.
Teslarati
AUGUST 4, 2024
Washington state has launched a new instant rebate program for electric vehicle (EV) purchases, specifically for those in lower-income brackets than the federal poverty line. Funding will run until either June 2025 or until all funding is used up, whichever comes first. adding that he hoped it could help the state go electric.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Redwood was able to receive the container of batteries and recover and recycle all the lithium-ion batteries involved in the incident. This volume is expected to be enough to remake about 70 electric vehicles. Overall, Redwood Materials was able to receive 70,000 pounds of battery materials from the I-15 incident.
Charged EVs
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The other thing that I think a lot of people miss is that off-grid works in some applications—places like parks and beaches where you don’t have any grid at all—but there are a lot more places where you have a little bit of grid power, for example a parking lot that has a lighting circuit. But we still have the DC technology.
Teslarati
APRIL 2, 2021
Despite the absence of 50% of the company’s all-electric models, Tesla reported nearly 100,000 more vehicles in Q1 2021 than it did in Q1 2020 , moving from 88,400 to 184,800. The Model S and Model X were both head-turners: the S, with its sporty look, was not the stereotypical electric car.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 1, 2015
Today, find out how a regulatory "travel provision" may be stifling electric-car sales outside California, see spy shots of the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid, and learn why General Motors' efforts to trademark the Chevrolet Bolt EV name have hit a roadblock. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Can you really get an electric car for free? Oklahoma-based, Drive Electric, sells neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs - a.k.a. electric golf carts) made by Western Golf Cars and Zone Electric. The NEV retailer is currently offering the four-passenger Zone Electric. Well, kinda.
Teslarati
JUNE 14, 2022
In a showing of modern industrial electrification, a New Zealand farm has not only gone off the grid but has electrified nearly all of its production equipment. kW electric one. Electric (Grid) – $24,341. Electric (Grid, Solar/Battery) – $5,910. From there, they decided to farm a regional delicacy: cherries.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
MAY 5, 2007
It's a pity that we have to remove this, but the size of the golf-cart batteries clearly interfere with the latch. The technical articles at Pelican Parts describe how to replace the pressure-based solution with an electric pump from a fish tank. I wanted to test to see if the 12V electrical system still worked.
EV Adoption
JUNE 29, 2021
When the Ford F-150 Lightning BEV reaches dealers in the spring or summer of 2022, it will wear the mantle as the most important electric vehicle introduced to date in America. The idea that an electric vehicle has fewer parts, and no engine that requires oil changes, is not unique to the Lightning. kW) versus 7.2 Image Source: Ford.
Teslarati
APRIL 19, 2021
Information regarding this small but impressive electric car that is a part of an SAIC, General Motors, and Wuling joint venture is vague and usually hard to come by. Many Tesla enthusiasts have called the Mini EV a “golf cart” because of its size and price point, and really that isn’t far off.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Tesla is the leader of the EV market and is the best-selling type of battery-electric vehicle. I emphasize battery electric since BYD recently topped Tesla in the market with sales of both battery electric and hybrid EVs. For this article, I’m focusing only on battery-electric vehicles.
Baua Electric
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Photo: Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition Drive Electric Week kicks off this Saturday with nearly 200 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles. Drive Electric Week is an annual event organized by Plug In America , the Electric Auto Association , EVHybridNoire , Drive Electric USA , and the Sierra Club.
All Cars Electric
JULY 26, 2010
On the one hand, it was one of the first breed of usable electric cars to the market. It's a proper car that doesn't feel like a golf cart to drive, and offers all the safety features we've come to expect from regular cars over the years. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV is an intriguing prospect. On the other, it's expensive.
CleanTechnica EVs
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
From tiny one wheel skate boards to giant ferry boats and all kinds of aircraft and everything in between, everything is going electric. There you have it: By land, by sea and in the air.
Plugs and Cars
AUGUST 18, 2007
Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. We'll also be taking Burning Man art projects off petroleum generators by switching them to solar electricity.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2015
The experiments we’re undertaking today will lead to an all-new model of transportation and mobility within the next 10 years and beyond. Using Georgia Tech-owned golf carts to prove out the technology, a person sitting in a remote location can access real-time video streamed over LTE to drive the carts.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 8, 2024
Squad Mobility When I’ve been on vacation in recent years, I’ve noticed more people getting around beach towns in electric golf carts. Sevvy’s Smart Cooker uses puled electric fields to cook food more efficiently. And isn’t finding solutions to real problems what engineering is all about?
Baua Electric
MAY 7, 2024
Eli Electric, the manufacturer of the popular Eli ZERO electric microcar, announced this morning the opening of reservations in the US. Microcars, often referred to as quadricycles in Europe and Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs) or Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) in the US, are a niche category designed largely for urban travel.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 10, 2021
Another Niche Filled by an Electric Version. Electric cars, trucks and buses are slowly making their way onto roads. million electric vehicle sales to date. Hybrid and fully electric vehicles are already available for a variety of commercial and personal uses. However, the vehicle isn’t fully electric.
Baua Electric
MARCH 14, 2025
The Ferrari campus in Maranello feels the most like a theme park and, of all the supercar destinations in the area, seems to attract the widest range of tourist. It is, after all, the only Italian luxury car manufacturer still racing at the Formula 1 level. Ferrari certainly possesses a particular romance.
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